Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-04-11
The New York Divine Bitterly Denounces
His Pursuers.

NEW YORK, April 10th.-Dr. Talmage
talked of the kissane case to the people
who went to hear his usual Friday lecture
He said " To what complete devilishness
of pursuit human nature may descend has
this week and last been illustrated. Some
thirty-three years ago a man then called
Kissane, but now called Rogers committed
great crimes. For thirty-three years he
has been an honest and good citizen After
he had established himself in righteous
ness, and had around him noble wife and
worthy sons and daughters, creatures go to
work and expose the sins which had for
three long decades been buried, and for no
other purpose except those of revenge and
blackmail. His old and cast off life is ex-
.humed, and
THE HOUNDS ARE BAYING AT HIM
From all sides Common fairness would
say that after thirty-three years of right
doing all previous wrong-doing might be
forgiven If all the respectable Christian
people of America were now arraigned and
punished for wrong things they did thirty
three years ago, there is hardly social
circle or church h-membersbip-aye, or fam
ily-that would not be rent asunder with
tragedy, Many whose early life was de-
bauch and abomination, have afterwards
gone to the front in usefulness. l say that
thirty three years of honesty and righteous
ness ought, in any community, to give a
man release from all review of early in
iquities. But Nop says human deyilish-
ness.
DOWN WITH KIssANE, FOREVER
Kill his wife and blast his children, and
let thirty-three years Of integrity be over
whelmed by what went beforen Jean
Vatican, of Victor Hugos immortal ro-
nance, was by many supposed to be an
impossibility. Jean Vatican, having broken
a window-glass of bakery in order to get
bread for his seven starving children, after
wards rises to all the nights of respectable
ity and honor, and for many years demon
strates every nobility of character. But,
after nearly a lifetime has passed, that
early wrong gets ON his track and chases
him to ruin.
BEHOLD THE vALJEAN OF ROMANCE,
Translated in real life, in this last quarter
of a century supposed to be Christian),
and see to what nights and depths the in
finities of spite, and hate, and bitterness,
and malice, and revenge, and diabolism
can range and revel."
DARR's MOTIVE IN SHIELDING KIssANE.
WASHINGTON, April 10th.-The Sunday
Herald says that General Francis Darr,
Kissanes pursuer, is brother of Colonel
Joe Darr, of Washington. That ner
Darr's family was grievously wronged by
Kissane is indicated by the following ex-
tract from letter written few months
ago by General Darr The fortunes and
happiness of my people were broken by
Kissane, and the sad results are felt to this
oay, regret to say, by those most dear to
= - fo1,.l
dren that Kissane has brought into the
world, and the pleading of my wife, whose
mother was killed by the distress resulting
from Kissanes running our factory, he
would be on his way to the scaffold before
this"
Later interviews with General Darr re-
port him as having stated that the reason
he did not expose Kissane was the hope OF
inducing the latter to make good the
money losses his tDarrs) people had suf-
fered.